Archive timeline
2000
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2000, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2000
- OCTOBER 15, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Mohammad Lak, convicted of kidnapping a three-year-old...
Mohammad Lak, convicted of kidnapping a three-year-old Afghan girl in 1999 and Abbas Qomi, convicted of abducting infant girls were publicly executed by hanging at Qom, south of the capital
- OCTOBER 14, 2000IraqDEATH PENALTY
The UN's human rights special rapporteur for Iraq,...
The UN's human rights special rapporteur for Iraq, Andreas Mavrommatis, reported that on May 22 he had asked for "clarification and details" to the Iraqi government of allegations that 122 men had been executed between February 3 and March 9 of this year
- OCTOBER 12, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Zhuzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced...
The Zhuzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced Li Guiju (female), Li Xiaojun, Li Qiugao and Luo Yongguo to death
- OCTOBER 12, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Justice Minister Turk, responding to a question about...
Justice Minister Turk, responding to a question about capital punishment , said that in the Justice Commission's draft a new article replaced Article 312
- OCTOBER 12, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
The ABA held a conference at the Carter Center in Atlanta...
The ABA held a conference at the Carter Center in Atlanta to again urge attorneys, judges, and policymakers to support a moratorium on executions
- OCTOBER 11, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
Prosecutors demanded the death penalty for Noboru Nakamura,...
Prosecutors demanded the death penalty for Noboru Nakamura, 33, a former AUM Shinrikyo member who allegedly took part in the 1994 nerve-gas attack
- OCTOBER 11, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
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- OCTOBER 11, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Commenting on the rejection of the Italian candidature...
Commenting on the rejection of the Italian candidature for one of the two non-permanent seats assigned to Eurpoe by the U
- OCTOBER 10, 2000Antigua & BarbudaDEATH PENALTY
Steadroy McDougal, 32, was sentenced to death for killing...
Steadroy McDougal, 32, was sentenced to death for killing his ex-girlfriend Louise Torrens, a 24-year-old woman from Stirlingshire, at Christmas 1998 and Mitchell Melius, a companion of Torrens from nearby St Lucia
- OCTOBER 10, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Anti Terrorist Court in Bahawalpur handed down a...
An Anti Terrorist Court in Bahawalpur handed down a death sentence to Muhammad Habib for raping two women at gunpoint
- OCTOBER 10, 2000VirginiaDEATH PENALTY
Bobby Lee Ramdass, 28, white, was put to death by lethal...
Bobby Lee Ramdass, 28, white, was put to death by lethal injection in Greenville Correctional Center
- OCTOBER 9, 2000BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Hatem Ali was sentenced to death in absentia for stabbing...
Hatem Ali was sentenced to death in absentia for stabbing to death, in 1997, a woman who had turned down his proposal of marriage
- OCTOBER 9, 2000ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
President Robert Mugabe launched a crackdown on the...
President Robert Mugabe launched a crackdown on the opposition
- OCTOBER 7, 2000LibyaDEATH PENALTY
A Libyan court postponed the trial of the six Bulgarian...
A Libyan court postponed the trial of the six Bulgarian medics to November 4, 2000
- OCTOBER 7, 2000BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
A Libyan court postponed the trial of the six Bulgarian...
A Libyan court postponed the trial of the six Bulgarian medics to November 4, 2000
- OCTOBER 7, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Mur'i Bin-Muhammad Bin-Ahmad al-Subhi was convicted...
Mur'i Bin-Muhammad Bin-Ahmad al-Subhi was convicted of murdering Muhammad Bin-Ahmad Bin-Isa Asiri, and executed in Maha'il Governorate, Asir region
- OCTOBER 6, 2000MalawiDEATH PENALTY
Thomson Filai Bokoboko and Lewis Livio Jonathan were...
Thomson Filai Bokoboko and Lewis Livio Jonathan were sentenced to death after being found guilty of murdering six women in Chiradzulu between 30th January and 25th March 2000
- OCTOBER 6, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Walter Schwimmer, the Secretary General of the Council...
Walter Schwimmer, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe (COE), said that he believed Turkey would take the necessary steps to abolish capital punishment
- OCTOBER 5, 2000RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
Romania's Passport General Directorate announced that...
Romania's Passport General Directorate announced that Ilie Ilascu and his wife Nina were granted Romanian citizenship
- OCTOBER 5, 2000IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court upheld the Jakarta High Court's 1997...
The Supreme Court upheld the Jakarta High Court's 1997 death sentence for Harnoko Dewantono, alias Oki, for a triple murder committed in the United States between 1991 and 1992, a court official said
- OCTOBER 5, 2000Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTY
At the request of the Sierra Leonean government, the...
At the request of the Sierra Leonean government, the United Nation's Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on August 14, 2000 to set up a special court for Sierra Leone
- OCTOBER 4, 2000EthiopiaDEATH PENALTY
Dawit Yohanes, the Speaker of the House of People's...
Dawit Yohanes, the Speaker of the House of People's Representatives called upon the international community to condemn the atrocities being committed against Ethiopian civilians by the Eritrean government at a "regional seminar of experts on the preventio
- OCTOBER 4, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Additional Sessions Judge, Muhammad Razzaq Nawaz,...
An Additional Sessions Judge, Muhammad Razzaq Nawaz, handed down the death sentence to Mohammed Azam for murder
- OCTOBER 4, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani said that there was...
Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani said that there was no ruling that the death sentence of a prisoner would automatically be commuted to life imprisonment if the state failed to execute the sentence within a year
- OCTOBER 3, 2000Côte d’IvoireDEATH PENALTY
6 soldiers arrested in connection with an armed attack...
6 soldiers arrested in connection with an armed attack on the army ruler General Robert Guei's house on September 18 have disappeared
- OCTOBER 2, 2000United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty for murder was abolished in Britain...
The death penalty for murder was abolished in Britain on December 18, 1969
- OCTOBER 2, 2000IraqDEATH PENALTY
Iraqi sources said that authorities executed eight...
Iraqi sources said that authorities executed eight prisoners on charges of forming an opposition organization and defacing several murals depicting Iraqi President Saddam Husayn
- OCTOBER 2, 2000South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Dullah Omar, architect of the amnesty process came...
Dullah Omar, architect of the amnesty process came face to face with Ferdi Barnard, the apartheid assassin who tried to gun him down in 1989
- OCTOBER 2, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Ahmad Bin-Muhammad Bin-Abd-al-Muhsin Al Qasim was executed...
Ahmad Bin-Muhammad Bin-Abd-al-Muhsin Al Qasim was executed in Al-Qatif after he was convicted of murdering Sabri Bin-Ahmad Bin-Muhammad Al Abd-al-Aziz
- OCTOBER 2, 2000AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Three men accused of murder and robbery were executed...
Three men accused of murder and robbery were executed in Kandahar, capital of the southern Kandahar Province